Trump Asks Appeals Court to Dismiss NY Fraud Case

President Donald Trump is asking a New York state court to fully dismiss fraud charges brought against him and his business associates by Attorney General Letitia James in 2022. The New York Appellate Division’s First Judicial Department already overturned a nearly half-billion dollar fine against Trump in August last year, but allowed his conviction to stand. His attorneys are asking the guilty verdict and the entire case be thrown out, and that court-ordered restrictions of the defendants to do business in New York be removed. The case stems from hundreds of millions in loans that Trump took out between 2011 and 2021 in partnership with his sons Eric and Donald Jr., along with other business associates....